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The Bedford Hill Gallery and Workshops Ltd (Reg. Charity 1001612) was established in 1979 for the promotion and advancement of public education in the visual arts.
Over the past 33 years the Gallery has run a number of community art projects, transforming derelict buildings, old warehouses and rundown community centres into fully functional, multi purpose community art centres, offering local communities venues for the performing arts, including music, drama, and theatre as well as for arts, crafts and photography.
In all, The Gallery has exhibited over 300 art exhibitions and developed six pioneering community art projects,
The Bedford Hill Gallery is currently focused on the Children's Art for Children project, which has grown dramatically over the last 12 years, even taking on an international dimension with the first ever international Cultural Exchange of children's paintings between the UK and Nepal. We are currently running exhibitions of children's art at 20 venues, including 14 in Nepal, which include hospitals, children's homes and schools
Project: Nepal 2013
Special thanks to Neelam, Nisha and Neeta Guide + Family for making this project possible.
Over the last five years The Bedford Hill Gallery has taken sixteen exhibitions of British children's paintings to Nepal, showing in hospitals, children's homes and schools.
A tiny village school on the borders of the Nepalese jungle, in Chitwan National Park, was in desperate need of a facelift.
In association with Children's Art for Children, three sisters, all Nepali students from Chitwan, took on the mamoth task of organising the schools to be painted white inside and out. These three students encouraged all the children and parents to participate
in the project. When we arrived to hang the exhibition the village school had been completely transformed into a clean and bright space breathing life and creativity. With the help of the children, the students painted the shutters in bold primary colours to match the frames of the paintings and then they hung the exhibition in the class rooms.
The
facelift has left a more optimistic environment for the children and their parents to enjoy their new school.
The students then organised a party for the younger children and their parents
to celebrate the refurbished village school followed by a feast for everybody. A great time was had by all. Including myself.
- Roy, BHG, 2013
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